The reason the political establishment has been so anxious to get rid of him, despite his failure to meaningfully change the system, is that his bombastic style, occasional moments of honesty, and lack of concern about charging ahead with policies the rest of the political class find imprudent threatens to give away the game. That said, in Europe, in the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire—the period we usually picture when we think of kings—power was highly dispersed between the crown, the nobility, the merchants, and the Church. And so it was the unique characteristics of the modern American executive branch that gave Trump the power to single-handedly push the Middle East into major regional war, and the wider world to the brink of an economic catastrophe.
Author: Connor O 'Keeffe
Published at: 2026-04-02 22:30:49
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